A battery that uses nanotechnology to charge your smartphone in 30 seconds may sound like something out of a sci-fi movie but an Israeli startup claims to have created just that. StoreDot unveiled its battery charging prototype Monday at Microsoft's ...

Touchscreen gloves are an essential accessory for smartphone addicts battling the winter chill, but the options for consumers are fairly limited. Purchasing a pair of attractive, touchscreen-compatible mittens usually means paying a pretty penny or s...

Microparticles that block the body's immune response to damaged tissue could help prevent further harm. Using tiny biodegradable particles to disrupt the body's normal immune response after a heart attack could help save patients from tissue damage a...

Sperm, those tenacious, single-minded swimmers and deliverers of life, are being enlisted as "spermbots" by scientists to act as biological motors capable of transporting drugs, genes and even other sperm to help treat a variety of medical issues. Re...

Major innovations and tech sea-changes were few and far between in 2013. Unfortunately, what usually follows major advancements are refinements. These days, innovation tends to happen on a nano-scale, which means most people cannot see or experience ...

Someday you will take a pill that will fix your body. Sounds like science fiction and, though not yet science fact, it is a tantalizing potential presented by a breakthrough in nano technology and biomedicine from researchers in the U.S., Denmark and...

Along the lines of self-driving cars and smart glasses, Google's newest venture promises to wow the tech scene. Only, it's not quite tech, at least in the traditional sense. The venture is called California Life Company, or Calico for short, and its ...

Nanobiosym, a nanotechnology firm based in Cambridge, Mass., has created a mobile device that can accurately test for HIV/AIDS in some of the most remote places on Earth, and do it in under an hour. Called Gene-Radar, the iPad sized piece of technolo...

The world of computing was treated to a rare breakthrough in nanotechnology on Wednesday. Researchers from Stanford University announced the creation of the first-ever working carbon nanotube computer. The findings were published in this week’s editi...

Actors have a saying: There are no small roles. IBM is seriously challenging that expression, however, now that it's created a short film where the actors are actually individual atoms. A Boy and His Atom would be just like any number of unremarkable...

Recent developments in the field of nanotechnology might give new meaning to the phrase “nothing gold can stay.” Atoms and bonds developed not by Mother Nature, but by scientists, are gaining momentum as the building blocks for cutting-edge materials...

Forget smart cars, smart appliances and smartphones. MIT researchers are taking intelligent inanimate objects to a more granular level: smart sand. The effect they're aiming for, as described on MIT's news site, is this: You would bury an object in s...

The past 24 hours have seen two of the biggest names in technology reveal the future of computer chips -- intentionally or otherwise. A leaked document from Intel shows the company setting the bar for the next generation of processors, which should s...

All the frills in life are shrinking in size. Laptops, cellphones and even big-screen televisions have been getting thinner and thinner. So why shouldn't necessary technology like medical labs and scientific tools get the same slimming treatment? Now...

Australian researchers have figured out a way to harness the energy we use while typing to power a laptop. Using piezoelectricity, this method works in a similar way to cigarette lighters that create a spark by striking a piezoelectric crystal. To po...

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